Still two games left.

#35: Tales of Berseria

• Though most games in this long-running series are unrelated to each other, this entry was is set in the same world as the previous entry in it, set around a 1000 years earlier.

#34:

• The game received an updated version a year after release that made some changes to features such as enemy positioning and behavior, and also added some new details to the story, including a new final boss that appears if you complete certain requirements beforehand.
• Said new final boss was also the namesake of this updated version, though he wasn't directly named in the subtitle bur rather referred to by a specific title.
• The previous final boss was the queen of the kingdom the game is set in. The king can also be fought as an optional boss.

#33: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III

• After two games of student life, the main character has now become a teacher in a newly established branch of a military academy.

#32: The Last of Us Part II

• About halfway through the story the perspective suddenly switches to who up to that point had been the game's main antagonist.

#31:

• Details the events of a secret offensive during the second Europan War.
• Takes place at the same time as the first game in the series.
• Much of the game is set in the frozen northern reaches of the continent.

Dark Souls 2 SOTFS

That's correct.

No. 35 Shadow Warrior

Slightly rough around the edges, perhaps one of the most flawed games on my list but I had more fun with this than any modern Doom title or most FPS single player game in general. They struck gold when rebooting this series but sadly the sequels didn't live up to this amazing title. It's not my favourite first person shooter but it's very close, it does what games should do more often and leans into a very arcadey feel to gameplay and it's just a blast to playthrough, it's fast paced and constant action with little down time. Add in the slightly comical tone of the game and it's the cherry on top.

Sonic the Hedgehog on Master System?

Yep, that's the one. One of my earliest video game memories, way back in the early '90s. Still my favourite Sonic game to this day.

#37

Change YoY: =   My Rating: 9.1 / 10

Control is something of an out-of-nowhere favourite of mine, as I must confess that I was never massively interested in most of Remedy Entertainment's previous games. I've played several of them, but neither Max Payne nor Alan Wake ever stayed with me to the extent that they clearly have with many other people. Even with Control, I didn't actually play it until last year, and still only because it was offered as one of the free monthly titles on PS Plus. At that point I thought I might as well give the game a chance, but I was just expecting to get a decent enough game that I'd enjoy while playing and then forget soon after. I was somewhat mistaken on that, as you might have figured out.

Not only is Control the most fun game to simply play that Remedy has ever made, the combination of gunplay and magic powers works wonderfully, but it also features one of my favourite settings in all of video games to date. The Oldest House is wonderfully cryptic and strange place, and the wider world it begins to reveal during the story as well as the various side quests and optional collectibles. I also found the characters far more well-rounded than in previous Remedy games, Jesse Faden being a great main character driven by an excellent performance by Courtney Hope. The rest of the cast is great too, a particular highlight being Ahti the janitor, and the voice actors do a great job leaning into the slightly off feeling of the whole game. Finally, I'd be remiss not to mention the Ashtray Maze, one of the single best levels in any video game in recent memory. Combined with the track "Take Control", it's a genuine highlight in an already excellent game.

Guessed by @UnderwaterFunktown

Prime 3 is... a weird one. Whereas the first two games in the Prime series sticked mostly faithfully to the traditional Metroid formula when translating it into 3D, this game took it in a very different direction, to the point where you could almost say it's not a metroidvania anymore. A lot of the changes were exciting and done well. Lots of planets to explore? Awesome. Even more awesome when all of them are so rich with lore and breathtaking visuals, something Retro Studios really excels at. Being able to go inside Samus' ship was also a first for the series and just overall really cool.

But many of these things brought their problems with it too. The game tries to go for an "epic cinematic" story, and sadly it falls flat because the writing, voice acting, and cutscene animations are all really weak. I mean, a 2007 Wii game can only be so cinematic, maybe someone should've told Retro Studios that beforehand. I suppose they wanted to round out the trilogy in a bombastic way, instead of just focusing on Prime 3 as a standalone game, which is where it works best.

Besides, it's no longer even a trilogy, eh? I wonder if this will still be the latest game in the Prime series on my list by this time next year.

(Well... if there even is a list next year. Anyways.)

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#35 - The first game in a "first-person shooter" series where you don't actually shoot bullets.

#34 - The third game in a "third-person shooter" series where you don't actually shoot bullets.

I guess 35 could be Portal.